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Robert Walter's Super Heavy Organ Live at Preservation Hall on 2008-04-30

by Robert Walter's Super Heavy Organ

Publication date: 2008-04-30 ( check for other copies)

Topics: TLM170, Neumann, 16 bit, flac16, BARN, New Orleans, Johnny Vidacovich, James Singleton, Donald Harrison, Greyboy Allstars, New Orleans, Jazzfest 2008, jazz, funk, groove, Preservation Hall

Collection: RobertWaltersSuperHeavyOrgan

Band/Artist: Robert Walter's Super Heavy Organ

Item Size: 933.9M

Robert Walter/Johnny Vidacovich/James Singleton/Donald Harrison

Set 1
1. intro (truncated on DAT master, but cuts back in just before 1st tune)
2. Maple Plank
3. Corry's Snail and Slug Death
4. banter - for Little Robert
5. 34 Small
6. banter - going to attempt to play the piano
7. Coupe
8. Parts And Holes
9. Inside Straight *
10. Dr. Watson
11. By The Rivers Of Babylon
12. banter - set break announcement

Set 2
1. crowd, 2nd set intro
2. Snakes And Spiders
3. banter - my favorite Mexican restaurant in San Diego
4. El Cuervo
5. banter - inviting up Scott Amendola on drums
6. The Weasel *+
7. Yodel
8. Juju *
9. encore break
10. Hey Pocky Way * (Donald Harrison vocals)
11. 2nd encore break
12. Instant Karma
13. banter - new record, thanks

Notes

Robert Walter - organ, piano
Johnny Vidacovich - drums, vocals (set 1, track 10)
James Singleton - acoustic bass
Donald Harrison - saxophone

* = w/Donald Harrison on saxophone
+ = w/Scott Amendola on drums

Original DAT recording by Scott Bernstein.
Transferred and mastered by Scott Bernstein, 12/25-26/2009.

Taper notes:
This is BARN13, by far the most recently-recorded of my archive restoration series, as I've been trying to focus on older, "moldy" stuff that hasn't seen the light of day in a long time. I pulled out this show of semi-recent vintage at the request of my lovely wife Jen. It was recorded in the waning days of my DAT recording era (I went to a 24 bit/hard disc based system less than two months later). This show was the first music we went to see when we got down to New Orleans for Jazzfest 2008, which was Jen's first time ever to Jazzfest, or to New Orleans for that matter. Even though I'd been to Jazzfest 3 times before and been to New Orleans a total of 5 times before this, I'd never been to historic Preservation Hall, so this brought back a lot of nice memories -- including the fact that somehow my microphone stand had been delayed on the flight and hadn't yet arrived by the start of this show, so I had to MyGuyver it and clamp my mics to Donald Harrison's mic stand and hope that nobody would care. Apparently they didn't. :-) Unfortunately the piano is a little lower in the mix than the organ, as it was MUCH quieter onstage and pretty far from my mics. Just a few days ago, Jen asked me to remind her about the Jazzfest show we went to see with Johnny Vidacovich (which turned out to be this show) and I realized we'd never listened to it once since I recorded it -- so I pulled it out to play, it sounded wonderful, and now thanks to Jen's inquiry, you all are able to listen to it as BARN13.....

Enjoy a little San Diego meets New Orleans jazz/groove!

Check out some photos I took at this show:

Robert Walter with Johnny Vidacovich, James Singleton and Donald Harrison, Jr. at Preservation Hall

A rundown of my previous BARN archival releases (all can be found on archive.org):
BARN1 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Code Talkers at Bret & Joyce's wedding 9/17/05
BARN2 - Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit (w/guest Warren Haynes for all of set 2) Wetlands 11/20/93
BARN3 - moe. Wetlands 7/8/95
BARN4 - Dan Bern Bottom Line 7/31/98 (late show)
BARN5 - moe. Birch Hill 10/31/96
BARN6 - moe. Maxwells 1/20/96
BARN7 - Dan Bern Central Park Summerstage 9/19/97
BARN8 - Dan Bern, Bottom Line 8/1/98
BARN9 - moe. Bayou 4/5/97
BARN10 - moe. Irving Plaza 4/4/97
BARN11 - moe. AKA 9/7/95
BARN12 - Yolk AKA 9/7/95

Addeddate: 2009-12-28 19:53:22

Identifier: rw2008-04-30

Lineage: Original recording: Neumann TLM170s (subcard @ lip of stage, clamped to Donald Harrison's mic stand)->Apogee AD1000 (soft limit, UV22 on @ 48khz, 16 bit)-> Teac DAP20 DAT(m) Transfer: Sony R500->Sound Devices 722 Mastered: Soundforge Audio Studio 10.0a - slight volume normalization. Sample rate conversion 48khz to 44.1khz using iZotope 64-Bit SRC set higher than "Highest Quality" setting w/anti-alias filter. All file manipulation in Soundforge done at 24 bits, then dithered back to 16 bits using using iZotope MBIT+ with Ultra noise shaping, High dither settings. Tracked in CDWav.